Quotes from Dean Koontz

But to me, right now, this week anyway, Friday is great. Friday is beautiful.

Oh, there's nothing worse than those damned, Pope-kissing, potato-sucking Irish.

Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever.

He takes dinner in a likable-looking roadhouse. Because he's off duty for the night, he has an extra-dry martini with a twist before dinner, another with an ahi appetizer, plus a glass of cabernet sauvignon with his steak.

What a repugnant, abhorrent, contemptible, deceitful, shifty, treacherous, insidious sonofabitch! She has never before been so full of adjectives.

bag also contains a Galco shoulder system for a pistol. The fit is tight but comfortable.

blessed with his superior genes. They won't be merely children, but demigods incorporating the diverse attributes of many species.

On a few occasions, he has even approached her

All three are nihilists

Everyone living here will be dead soon. Everyone within a radius of miles. Miles and miles.

He knew what he didn't know. Dorian Purcell, on the other hand, seemed not to know what he didn't know.

There. I'd actually said it. I had told her she was beautiful, even though she might need a translator to have my meaning properly conveyed.

They feed on violence, but they feast on the despoiling of what is good.

I'm a tea-swilling limey, too.

I despaired that so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from the shore of truth that they couldn't even see it.

you have a great deal of time to fill. The most pleasant way to fill it is by studying and learning things. One of the things Woody had greatly enjoyed learning was classical mythology.

To Carson, Hayden Eckman said, "The AG called me himself, a few hours ago. He made a persuasive argument.

I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too. When

Now Michael J. watches her from high on the sycamore.

I have had successes but also failures, because whatever else I might be, I am first and foremost human, and the tendency of our fallen kind is to fall again.

Jim Jamison, like Ed, loved music and art and history.

The child who, far too young, saw anarchy in the world and feared it. The child who resented being born into such a disordered world, who saw chaos and yearned to find order in it.

She stiffened her resolve with a line of Eliot's verse: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

One eye had been torn from its socket.